[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 8.61, Test Suite Updates, and Updated Certification Workflow Site Available

[Red Hat Partner Certification Operations Team]

Greetings Red Hat Partners,

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Red Hat
Certification 8.61 website and test suite including the updates listed
below. These Red Hat Certification updates *are* an official release and
should be used for new Red Hat certification submissions. Successful
results from the previous certification test suite releases will be
accepted for a period of 90 days.

The updated Red Hat Certification packages are available on the Red Hat
Customer Portal Downloads at the following location:

https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/282/

The Red Hat Certification management interface on Red Hat Partner Connect,
which is available at https://rhcert.connect.redhat.com, has been updated
to use these packages.



This release includes enhancements:
New features

Program

Details

Red Hat Products affected

Hardware Certification

Added support for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) RHEL hardware certs

   -

   The following tests have been added for  systems that HBM:
   -

      memory_HBM_only
      -

      memory_HBM_cache
      -

      memory_HBM_flat
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   The applicable test will plan based on the memory layout and HBM
   operation mode.
   -

   For non HBM systems, the regular memory test will continue to be planned.

RHEL 8.6 and above

Improvements

Program

Details

Red Hat Products affected

Hardware Certification

Firewall  port for nfs on the LTS are now opened automatically

   -

   The Kdump with nfs test will now verify if a firewall is running on the
   LTS and if requisite ports for NFS are available through the firewall..
   -

   If the ports are not open, the test will attempt to automatically open
   the default nfs port(s).


RHEL 8.0 and above

Hardware Certification

RDMA tests are updated

   -

   The Infiniband and Omnipath tests, now include an update to the queue
   pair parameter of the ib_*_bw subtests to achieve better bandwidth.
   -

   This change is to achieve a closer to line rate bandwidth during
   testing.  Resulting in a reduction in the overall level of effort,
   workarounds, manual testing,  and exception requests when attempting to
   certify with these cards.


RHEL 8 and above

OpenShift Certification

New redhat-certification-cnf RPM

   -

   This release contains a new RPM package, redhat-certification-cnf, which
   packages and incorporates the TNF Test Suite
   <https://github.com/test-network-function/cnf-certification-test>.
   -

   This RPM is not currently required, but is provided as a technology
   preview.

Preview


We value your ongoing participation in Red Hat certification, software
development, and testing efforts. Thank you for your continued partnership.
If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us
through the Red Hat Partner Acceleration Desk
<https://connect.redhat.com/support/technology-partner/>.

Regards,

The Red Hat Certification Team
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